Leaseholders Fire Safety Costs 2021-01-11
2021-01-11
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High costs of interim fire safety measures are burdening leaseholders in buildings with unsafe cladding. The issue is causing financial strain, sleep deprivation, and mental stress.
What steps he is taking to support leaseholders with high costs of interim fire safety measures pending permanent remediation?
We have announced a new £30 million fund to help end the scandal of excessive waking watch costs, which will fund the installation of alarm systems in buildings with unsafe cladding. This is expected to save residents £3 million each month and reduce dependence on costly interim measures such as waking watches.
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High costs of interim fire safety measures are burdening leaseholders in buildings with unsafe cladding. The issue is causing financial strain, sleep deprivation, and mental stress.
Sleep deprivation is recognised as a form of torture. People living in buildings with unsafe cladding are being tortured: physically, due to lack of sleep; financially, due to inability to sell homes and forced payment for waking watches; mentally, due to living in limbo. When does my right hon. Friend expect that torture to end?
We want residents of blocks enduring a waking watch to get the benefits of our changes as soon as possible. The £30 million fund is expected to be open this month with the aim of providing funding for the installation of alarms as quickly as possible.
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